A Sustainable Scrubby Solution

I swear this is NOT turing into a foodie blog, but you never know when inspiration is going to strike. In this case, it happened in my kitchen. :)

After my recent culinary disaster, I decided to cook a super-delish Sunday dinner for me & the fella. I settled on Coq Au Vin. This classic from Mastering the Art of French Cooking is simply THE best way to prepare chicken that I have ever discovered.

One of the ingredients, other than chicken, cognac, mushrooms, carrots, and wine (hence the vin), are these little guys:

If this was a food blog, this would be the part where I tell you to blanch pearl onions before trying to peel them, because they practically peel themselves. But of course, this is NOT a food blog.

As I began cooking, I was filled with increasing dread at the amount of dishes I would have to wash later. Especially when I noticed the condition of my scrubby thing.

I love that you re-use things! If only more people were like that – I am ALWAYS saying this is not good for our planet – let’s re-use! In my case I scored a fantastic possibly vintage dress initially tagged at $50, but turns out it was only $5 MADE IN THE USA! Funny enough I’m a size 12 and it was tagged a 1X!

I’ve used the netting for scrubbies before. I also remember making Christmas crafts with my Grandma (back in the 60’s). We painted a quart milk carton green, slipped some red netting over it, wove in some plastic holly, added some red ribbon at the top and bottom and made a decoration that we hung from the light over our kitchen table, lol! It was pretty cute, as I recall…

Love this. I think it goes to show that once you start thinking in the direction of re-use and sustainability from any view point (in your case it was clothes and how wasteful we have become with them) you are more likely to begin thinking about it in every aspect of your life. I LOVE your refashions…but I love your sustainability message….which is at the heart of what you do…even more.

It’s not entirely off-theme for this blog. I think once you get into the habit of looking at old clothes n a new way, you form the habit of trying to find new uses for all kinds of old things. It’s just good mental gymnastics.

I have an orange net bag bow (that was red in color) on a wreath in my kitchen this very minute. On the wreath are vintage cookie cutters and cookie press discs. I recycled this 5-6 years ago for Christmas and loved it so much I keep it up year round.
Once you think outside the box….you are there and everything else falls into place.
Keep up any kind of refashion, it all makes sense and saves stuff from the landfill.

Hi to all: I know this is not a food blog but if the newly constructed scrubbie is not as successful as you thought try this. Fill pot up with hot water and a small amount of dish soap AND a dryer sheet. Yes it works overnight. Has something to do with the anti static stuff in it. I also did this with oven racks. In the bathtub with hot water and 1/2 cup dishwashing liquid and 7 dryer sheets – and overnight most of the burned on food was gone. I did this a couple of times and I am very happy with it.

I’ve been doing this for years! I like to tuck one half of the bag into itself so that the raw edges are on the same side. Then I slip a rubber band over it and roll the raw edges over the rubber band. I keep rolling until I’ve got a donut that’s easy to hold and store. When it gets grungy or full of food bits, I unroll it, remove the rubber band, and then impale it on the dishwasher prong thingies. When the dishwasher load is done, the bag is nice and clean and ready to roll into a scrubby again!

Barb is right-dryer sheets to the rescue! They make using the slow cooker a breeze. I use those little bags when I make soup to holds the veggie scraps, or a chicken carcass. They do a great job of making the bones easy to take out

This IS fashion Jillian – Fashion for the kitchen! What’s not to love? Never apologize for any food related posts, we all gotta eat and now we’ve got one more refashion to think about in our homes. Love it!